Re^2: tell() on sysread()

are you certain? beacuse the following works for me

perl -e'open FH,"<test.pl"||die$!;$fh=\*FH;sysread($fh,$foo,256);
$bar=tell($fh);print"$foo\n$bar\n";'
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Re^3: tell() on sysread() by !1 (Hermit) on Oct 25, 2004 at 17:07 UTC
Yet it fails miserably on Win32. The side-effects of using sysread are system-specific.	[reply]